Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 7, 2002
COSMO SANTULLO is President and CEO of SonicWALL. Most recently he was
President and CEO of Mirror Image Internet Inc., an Internet content
delivery solutions provider. Prior to Mirror Image, Mr. Santullo served
as the President of the e-Business solutions firm EMC Corporation, the
world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems. In this
position, he was responsible for sales, engineering, strategy and
operations as well as building the Web hosting outsourcing and
application services business. Prior to this, Mr. Santullo was Senior
Vice President of Global Marketing at EMC. Prior to Mr. Santullo's post
at EMC, he held various management positions over a 20-year tenure at
IBM, most recently as General Manger of the multibillion-dollar North
American Personal Systems Group. In this position, he was responsible
for sales, marketing, and business management of IBM's North American PC
operation. Mr. Santullo received his BS in Industrial Engineering from
Princeton University. Profile
TWST: Can we start out with some background on SonicWALL ' how you viewthe company today?
Mr. Santullo: Historically, brothers Sreekanth Ravi and Sudhakar Ravi
founded SonicWALL over 10 years